The Magical World of Disney

Hello again! First, I would like to congratulate Brian Oestrike and Justin Hewitt on their summit of Mt. Everest. I'd also like to congratulate Katie Oestrike and Rachel Rankin on being a wonderful support team at Advanced Base Camp in support of the summit. We're all so proud of the amazing feat they have accomplished for a wonderful cause, LUNGevity (www.lungevity.org). If you'd like to learn more about them and their adventure, visit their blog at www.climbforcancer.blogspot.com. Congratulations again!
I'm currently in St. George, SC aka The Grits Capital of the World. We've stopped over here on our way to DC. We're leaving shortly to go to the Grits Headquarters, which I'm sure I'll post pictures of in the near future!
So, Disney was good, but I'm glad to be gone. We stayed at a Disney Resort called Pop Culture - it has 2800 rooms and giant plastic statues of different icons from the 1950's - 1990's. We stayed in the 1970's and it was pretty cool - by cool, I mean weird!
Anyways, we collected on two different days of the Magic Kingdom. We had to wake up at 5am and be in the park by 6:30. We were allowed to collect from 7am - 7:45am each day. We collected Main Street, FantasyLand, and ToonTown the first day and then TomorrowLand, FrontierLand, and Liberty Street the second day. On the first day, we were given free hopper passes so we hit up Animal Kingdom during the day and then had dinner and fireworks at Epcot and rode the Tower of Terror and Aerosmith's Rockin Roller Coaster at MGM at night. MGM was open late for Disney Resort Guests, which we so luckily were!
We didn't do anything special the second day because we were super tired. Then on Friday, Team 2 (we're Team 6 by the way) had a friend from Miami, FL visit and we went to Universal Studio's Islands of Adventure. Universal is different from Disney in that there are less Mickey Mouse crocs and less crying children, so that was nice. There are also much bigger rides there. The last bonus is that I got in free. It's a long story, but basically, I kept a hold of a 2-day pass for the past 6 years because I only used it for 1-day thinking I'd one day end up in Orlando, FL again, which I did. I learned on Friday that the pass had to be used within 6 days of the original date it was used, but they were nice and let the 6 years pass instead!
We then left today and are headed to DC. We are renting a really nice Brownstone apartment just Northeast of the Capital Building, so if you want to visit, we have a nice place for you to stay. Alright, well I've posted some photos of me being a Tourist and of the wonderful World of Disney and some of a beautiful sunrise I experienced in Jacksonville. Enjoy and hope everyone is doing just grand in B-Town, C-Falls, etc. Happy Memorial Day (Blossom Time) weekend!